From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 19 06:58:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B7116A4CE; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:58:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E43C143D55; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:58:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) j2J6xECm024990; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:59:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: "Bruce A. Mah" In-Reply-To: <1111215080.97034.9.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> References: <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <1111210527.41721.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1111215080.97034.9.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zZh/RcM9wgZIEoCzubNk" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:58:16 -0500 Message-Id: <1111215496.41721.58.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: Murray Stokely Subject: Re: fam X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:58:35 -0000 --=-zZh/RcM9wgZIEoCzubNk Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 22:51 -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:04 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > How important is fam to GNOME. Should we add a commented out entry t= o > > > inetd.conf? Any comment on PR: conf/74004? > >=20 > > I'll say it's critical to a user-friendly GNOME installation. Without > > FAM, you will need to restart gnome-panel each time you install new > > software, the GTK+ file chooser doesn't update dynamically nor does > > Nautilus (or anything related to the file system). I can't imagine > > actually using a GNOME installation without FAM. >=20 > Heh. Well, I did for several months, up until about an hour ago. > Amazing how much better Nautilus works now. :-) >=20 > So where should I have looked for this information? devel/fam's pkg-message unfortunately. > (ports/devel/fam/pkg-message didn't do me any good...it scrolled off the > screen when I originally installed GNOME from the meta-port.) Alas, we used to have a section about this in our (FreeBSD GNOME) FAQ. However, since we enabled FAM support by default in gnomevfs2, we dropped it. I think it would be worth adding back in as its own FAQ, but I'm not sure if that's the best place to disseminate the information. Joe=20 >=20 > Cheers, >=20 > Bruce. >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-zZh/RcM9wgZIEoCzubNk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCO82Ib2iPiv4Uz4cRAuuzAJ4hQm4JM8mILZWa0Sf0iC6mD/v+NwCcC3ZL wJHx/xfMS3gtLts54lAzVgM= =xVeY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zZh/RcM9wgZIEoCzubNk--